Archive for: October 19, 2008

“Silence is the virtue of fools,” Sir Francis Bacon once said. Instead of silence, today Bacon would be referring to a mindless politeness on what can and cannot be spoken in the public arena. We call it political correctness. Yet …

How might an Obama administration impact America’s foreign policy throughout the world, especially in the Middle East? ccording to an article in the New York Post, the Reverend Jesse Jackson believes that Obama would bring fundamental changes to U.S. …

During the last two presidential elections — 2000 and 2004 — the Democrats have used the Marxist strategy of “blame others of what you do.” While the liberal-left and their news media comrades give credence to allegations of …

When children canâ€™t get what they want, they sometimes become angry. If they are not taught values like reason, morality, and forbearance, they may continue this behavior as they grow older. Most people gain maturity as they gain years, and …

In 2006, Republican Mark Foley did the honorable thing when news of his sex scandal was disclosed: He immediately resigned his seat in the House of Representatives. At the time, Nancy Pelosi chalked up the Foley scalp as another …

Despite what you read in the press, the $700 billion “Wall Street bailout” program granting the Treasury and the Fed almost unlimited and only slightly defined authority to implement the bailout bill is hardly unprecedented.